Julian Headlong: Pathological Science

Some of the more extreme examples of science gong off the rails:
N-rays R Us.

You can have technology without science --- it would be possible to
do everything by trial and error.

You can't have science without technology. You need the technology to
build better and better instruments to do the finer and finer
measurements necessary to check scientific theories against the real
world.

Panel: Thog v. the Zeitgeist

Social and political concerns misapplied to Fantasy and SF: medieval
feminists, and far-future killers with a conscience.

SF is about change and
progress
.

Fantasy is about
return
, about repairing undesired change.

Jack Cohen: Sex, Complex and Multiplex

On the future evolution of the human species: "I believe we are
already lots of different species -- which means we can do interesting
things together. We are at the stage of using 'groups' of people -- the
same way groups of bacteria formed the eukaryotes."